Nurse dismissed for leading schizophrenic patient on crack orgy

A nurse who took a detained schizophrenic patient out of a mental health unit for a night of prostitutes and hard drugs has been dismissed from the profession.

The Gordon Hospital in London, where Josiah Amara used to work

Josiah Amara encouraged the patient to abscond from the NHS-run unit and take part in the drugs orgy, the Nursing and Midwifery Council heard.

The man, known only as Patient A, had suffered from paranoid schizophrenia since 1983 and had been detained under the Mental Health Act when the incident took place on December 19, 2005.

After Amara finished his shift at The Gordon Hospital, Westminster, the pair first visited the home of an unnamed female patient to buy crack.

When they found it was low quality they ordered four rocks of crack ‘and two girls’ from a drug dealer.

Amara, 50, then shared the drug with his patient before having sex with one of the prostitutes in front of him, the hearing was told. Colleagues from the unit had called police upon the patient’s disappearance and he did not return until the following day.

Father-of-four Amara, who had been addicted to the drug since 2003, did not attend the hearing in London but previously claimed that Patient A’s allegations were part of a delusional fantasy.

However, panel chairman Simon Evans said the patient’s testimony was ‘compelling’.

Amara, of Barnet, north London, was found guilty of purchasing and taking crack cocaine in the company of Patient A and having sexual intercourse with a prostitute in his presence.

The panel decided his fitness to practise as a nurse was impaired and banned the Sierra Leone national from working as a nurse anywhere in Britain.